This flesh at the last gasp restores

This flesh at the last gasp restores
The feeble strength it once enjoy’d,
Depriv’d of all its active force,
It lies of sense and motion void;
But rais’d in power to reach the skies,
Inspir’d with vigorous life unknown,
With lightning wing’d, it mounts, it flies,
It stands before the Saviour’s throne!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.”—[1 Cor.] xv. 43. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 39.
Publishing: Public Domain